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Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2003
This engaging and accessible reader takes a social problems approach to health and medicine, providing a broad and critical lens on contemporary health problems. Designed for courses on social problems and on medical sociology, the volume embraces two fundamental principles: that health and illness...
Unequal Health
How Inequality Contributes to Health or Illness
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2017
Unequal Health examines the reasons why stark differences in health and well-being persist, even as the health care industry and access to health care grow. The third edition of this powerful book retains the accessible style and focus on inequality from previous editions while featuring significant...
The New Pediatrics
A Profession in Transition
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
When antibiotics became readily available in the 1950s, the danger of life-threatening infectious childhood diseases virtually disappeared. In that era, pediatricians broadened the core professional task of their specialty--the prevention and treatment of such diseases--to incorporate the behavioral...
by Bridget Fowler
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2007
The first serious academic study of obituaries, this book focuses on how societies remember. Bridget Fowler makes great use of the theories of Pierre Bordieu, arguing that obituaries are one important component in society's collective memory. This book, the first of its kind, will find a place on every serious sociology scholar's bookshelves.
Recasting Caste
From the Sacred to the Profane
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Recasting Caste confronts the mainstream sociology of caste at its root: Louis Dumont’s Homo Hierarchicus and its main source, Max Weber’s distinction between class and status. Conventional wisdom on caste is idealist, and most students of the subject therefore exaggerate ritual homogeneity and...
Forest of Tigers
People, Politics and Environment in the Sundarbans
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Acclaimed for its unique ecosystem and Royal Bengal tigers, the mangrove islands that comprise the Sundarbans area of the Bengal delta are the setting for this pioneering anthropological work. The key question that the author explores is: what do tigers mean for the islanders of the Sundarbans? The...
Is There Life After Football?
Surviving the NFL
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2014
A human face on the realities of professional football, from the challenges players face after leaving the NFL to the factors that can enable them to continue to find success
2016 Best Book Award, North American Society for the Sociology of Sport
Is There Life After Football?draws upon the experiences...
Surfing and Social Theory
Experience, Embodiment and Narrative of the Dream Glide
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
Surfing has emerged from ancient roots to become a twenty-first century phenomenon – an ‘alternative’ sport, lifestyle and art form with a global profile and ever-increasing numbers of participants. Drawing on popular surf culture, academic literature and the analytical tools of social theory,...
by Daniel Chirot
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2011
This book, the only brief and affordable macro-sociology text available for undergraduates, describes how societies have changed over the past five thousand years. The discussion focuses on the idea that industrial societies, despite their great success, have created a new set of recurring and unsolved...
Blueprint
The Evolutionary Origins of a Good Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
"A dazzlingly erudite synthesis of history, philosophy, anthropology, genetics, sociology, economics, epidemiology, statistics, and more" (Frank Bruni, New York Times), Blueprint shows how and why evolution has placed us on a humane path -- and how we are united by our common humanity.
For...
Evidence-Based Policymaking
Insights from Policy-Minded Researchers and Research-Minded Policymakers
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2011
This book is for those who believe that good government should be based on hard evidence, and that research and policy ought to go hand-in-hand. Unfortunately, no such bond exists. Rather, there is a substantial gap, some say chasm, between the production of knowledge and its utilization. Despite...
by Michelle Norris
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2016
This book examines the long-term development of the Irish welfare state since the late nineteenth century. It contests the consensus view that Ireland, like other Anglophone countries, has historically operated a liberal welfare regime which forces households to rely mainly on the market to maintain...
Cities and Crisis
New Critical Urban Theory
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2013
Recognizing the deep relations between politics, finance, cities and citizens, this book argues for a rejuvenated account of urban theory.
The book emphasises the need to understand the importance of the 2008 global financial crisis and how the crisis affects cities nested in a variety of political...
Ethics and Diversity in Business Management Education
A Sociological Study with International Scope
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2015
This book examines business education from the perspective of the social sciences and humanities, specifically sociology and ethics. In particular, it offers the rare combination of liberal arts and business management education which is used to investigate how aspects of business education might...